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Salmon Arm News

Shuswap skiers tops

Shuswap skiers tops

Mar 13, 2017 / 10:39 am

Two Shuswap skiers came tops at the annual Sovereign Lake Loppet on Silver Star Mountain this weekend. Thomas Hardy, of the Larch Hills ski club in Salmon Arm,...

Lines down near Sicamous

Lines down near Sicamous

Sicamous Mar 13, 2017 / 6:14 am

Highway 97A is reduced to single-lane alternating traffic near Sicamous. DriveBC reports hydro lines are down four kilometres south of the Shuswap community....

Cash for Shuswap trails

Cash for Shuswap trails

Mar 12, 2017 / 11:08 am

Provincial funding will allow new trails for hiking, mountain biking, horse riding and snowshoeing in the Shuswap region to move forward this year, according to...

State of emergency declared

State of emergency declared

Shuswap Mar 10, 2017 / 3:58 pm

A B.C. Interior First Nation has declared a state of emergency over the growing fentanyl crisis. The deadly drug has been responsible for a record number of...

Close call with truck

Close call with truck

Mar 9, 2017 / 1:37 pm

UPDATE: 1:35 p.m. A trucker who often drives the same stretch of highway where a near-crash was caught on dashboard camera said incidents like this give drivers...

Babcock goes Green

Babcock goes Green

Mar 7, 2017 / 3:00 pm

Government is best served as a collaboration of diverse voices looking out for the best interests of all those represented. That from Kevin Babcock who has...

Save the house

Save the house

Mar 6, 2017 / 5:00 am

A group in Salmon Arm has its fingers crossed ahead of a city council meeting this month that may reveal the fate of a well-known heritage house in the city....

New leader for chamber

New leader for chamber

Mar 4, 2017 / 2:30 pm

The Salmon Arm Chamber of Commerce has a familiar face at the helm. Shuswap Hospital Foundation director of development Fiona Harris was proclaimed president...

Campgrounds take on CRA

Campgrounds take on CRA

Mar 4, 2017 / 5:00 am

MP Mel Arnold is getting lots of calls from campground operators and RV companies over a change to a Canada Revenue classification for such operations. The...

Arnold backs O'Toole

Arnold backs O'Toole

Mar 3, 2017 / 8:00 pm

North Okanagan Shuswap MP Mel Arnold is backing Durham Ontario MP Erin O’Toole in the crowded Conservative leadership race. O’Toole, 44, is a...

Grapes opens Shuswap bar

Grapes opens Shuswap bar

Mar 3, 2017 / 7:00 pm

Grapes is coming to the Shuswap – well, his bar is anyway. The Prestige Harbourfront Resort Salmon Arm will soon be home to Don Cherry’s Sports...

Man jumps from moving car

Man jumps from moving car

Shuswap Mar 1, 2017 / 5:09 pm

Salmon Arm RCMP are trying to figure out why a man jumped out of a moving car. Staff Sgt. Scott West said on Feb. 28 around the dinner hour, “traffic was...

Thieves make off with ATM

Thieves make off with ATM

Shuswap Feb 28, 2017 / 5:09 pm

Salmon Arm RCMP are on the lookout for a trio of ATM thieves. Staff Sgt. Scott West said on Feb. 27, police responded to a theft in progress at a local mall at...

Suit over Salmon Arm fall

Suit over Salmon Arm fall

Feb 28, 2017 / 11:42 am

A civil lawsuit for damages against the City of Salmon Arm over a woman's fall on a sidewalk in 2013 can proceed, a B.C. Supreme Court judge has ruled. On...

From Shuswap to Patagonia

From Shuswap to Patagonia

Feb 22, 2017 / 8:00 pm

Members of the Shuswap Trail Alliance have returned to Chile's Patagonia region to train and consult locals on sustainable trail designs. “This trail...

Rocking the house

Rocking the house

Feb 21, 2017 / 3:39 pm

It's time to hurry hard in the Shuswap. The best senior curlers in B.C. are rocking the house in Salmon Arm for the 2017 BC Senior Curling Championships....

Sicamous robbery charge

Sicamous robbery charge

Feb 21, 2017 / 10:37 am

A man has been charged following an alleged robbery on Feb. 12 in Sicamous. RCMP report two men were invited into a residence on Spruce Street around midnight...

No smoking, no vaping

No smoking, no vaping

Feb 20, 2017 / 6:00 pm

Keeping up with the times, the North Okanagan Shuswap School District has banned vaping as well as smoking on any of its premises. District 83's official...

5 lanes for Highway 1

5 lanes for Highway 1

Sicamous Feb 20, 2017 / 1:01 pm

It appears a majority of people would like to see the old, two-lane RW Bruhn Bridge in Sicamous replaced by a much larger, five-lane structure, according to a...

Crash near Salmon Arm

Crash near Salmon Arm

Salmon Arm Feb 17, 2017 / 11:37 am

UPDATE: 11:35 a.m. Highway 1 has reopened near Salmon Arm. ORIGINAL: 7:45 a.m. A crash has closed Highway 1 about 30 kilometres east of Salmon Arm. DriveBC...